Hi Linda

The usual CSICOP crowd have tried very hard to debunk these and like to fall back on their favourite card, not randomized well enough.
Randomization failures cause false positives so if the trials were not randomized correctly then the results are as expected. Is it not reasonable to point out such a glaringly obvious and fatal flaw in a trial?

However, if you look at the claims and counter-claims, you will see that no one has been able to poke a big hole in the findings of the experiments (that human telepathy exists).
Well except to point out that the experiment was run in such a way that it would produce false positives and Blackmore’s observations of direct tampering with the results in one lab and the fact that duplicate experiments failed to produce the same findings in fact they produced the expected 25% hit rate that chance alone predicts. For a scientific paper that’s damning and would get you thrown out of any reputable scientific publishers office.

Russell